2 Corinthians 4:11

For we which live We, the possessors of the Divine life in Christ, the spiritual life which takes the place of the natural. Cf. ch. 2 Corinthians 3:3; 2Co 3:6; 2 Corinthians 3:17, and 1 Corinthians 11:12; 1 Corinthians 11:16; 1 Corinthians 15:45-46, and notes.

are alway delivered unto death Literally, are alway being delivered unto death, i.e. while we are engaged in this ministry on behalf of Jesus Christ our Lord, calling on us as it does for a perpetual conflict with enemies without, and the weakness of our mortal flesh within.

that the life also of Jesus Not only is what was stated in the last verse the fact, but it was God's purpose that it should be so. The labours and trials of the Apostles are due to the working of a principle of death which is ever hostile to life and God. But the operation of that principle in the mortal bodies of the Apostles is destined only to display the working of a still stronger principle, the life that comes from God. See next note.